{"id":9809,"date":"2025-10-13T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9809"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T12:42:25","slug":"does-the-uaw-need-an-independent-political-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/10\/13\/does-the-uaw-need-an-independent-political-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Does The UAW Need an Independent Political Program?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Labor Notes brings us<a href=\"https:\/\/labornotes.org\/2025\/10\/labor-needs-independent-political-program-says-uaws-fain\"> Labor Needs an Independent Political Program, Says UAW&#8217;s Fain<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Fain said UAW polling has found that union auto workers have similar priorities. He named these four: wages, health care, retirement, and winning back control of time\u2014no more 12-hour days, or working two jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cAmong our members, Republican, Democrat, independent, young, old, Black, white, every part of the country, over 90 percent say that those four issues are their top issues,\u201d said Fain. \u201cIt&#8217;s not the border. It&#8217;s not bathrooms. It&#8217;s not religious beliefs. It&#8217;s the four core issues.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"778\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/four-33767_1280-778x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/four-33767_1280-778x1024.png 778w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/four-33767_1280-228x300.png 228w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/four-33767_1280-768x1010.png 768w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/four-33767_1280.png 973w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/clker-free-vector-images-3736\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=33767\">Clker-Free-Vector-Images<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=33767\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Notes brings us Labor Needs an Independent Political Program, Says UAW&#8217;s Fain&#8230; Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9811,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/revisions\/9811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}